Less than one month left until Percona
Live. This time the Committee work was a bit unusual. Instead of
having one big committee for the whole conference we had a few
mini-committees, each responsible for a track. Each independent
mini-committee, in turn, had a leader who was responsible for the
whole process. I led the MariaDB track. In this post, I want to explain how
we worked, which topics we have chosen, and why.

For MariaDB, we had seven slots: five for 50-minutes talks, two
for 25-minutes talks and 19 submissions. We had to reject two out
of three proposals. We also had to decide how many topics the
program should cover. My aim here was to use the MariaDB track to
demonstrate as many MariaDB unique features as …

Continuent have been a long term sponsor of the Percona Live
conference, and the MySQL conference as it was before that, for
many years. We have attended the conference both as a
Diamond sponsor, and members of our staff attending and
presenting our products and experience at the conference.

The nature of these conferences always changes over time, and we
have seen over the last few years how the Percona Live conference
has moved from being a pure MySQL conference to an open
source database conference. Although Continuent continue to
provide open source software and integrate with many open
source databases, our core operation still revolves around
MySQL clustering and replication for MySQL and Oracle.

Continuent is also evolving and changing and we are increasingly
deploying and moving towards pure cloud-based
environments, building and developing products that are
used on the cloud or …

Today we welcome Derek Downey to the show. Derek is the Practice
Advocate for the OpenSource Database practice at Pythian, helping
to align technical and business objectives for companies and
clients. Derek has also been a presenter at Percona Live
Conference. The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is
the premier event for the diverse and active open source database
community, as well as businesses that develop and use open source
database software. The conference has a technical focus with an
emphasis on the core topics of MySQL, MongoDB, and other open
source databases.

In this episode, Derek focuses on the core topics of MySQL,
MongoDB, and other open source databases and he shares more
insights from his experience at the Percona Live Conference.
Percona Live is an opportunity to network with peers and
technology professionals by bringing together accomplished …

Today we welcome Derek Downey to the show. Derek is the Practice
Advocate for the OpenSource Database practice at Pythian, helping
to align technical and business objectives for companies and
clients. Derek has also been a presenter at Percona Live
Conference. The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is
the premier event for the diverse and active open source database
community, as well as businesses that develop and use open source
database software. The conference has a technical focus with an
emphasis on the core topics of MySQL, MongoDB, and other open
source databases.

In this episode, Derek focuses on the core topics of MySQL,
MongoDB, and other open source databases and he shares more
insights from his experience at the Percona Live Conference.
Percona Live is an opportunity to network with peers and
technology professionals by bringing together accomplished …

As opposed to previous orchestrator talks I gave, and which
were either high level or algorithmic talks, Practical
Orchestrator will be, well... practical.

The objective for this talk is that attendees leave the classroom
with a good grasp of orchestrator's powers, and know
how to set up orchestrator in their environment.

We will walk through discovery, refactoring, recovery, HA. I will
walk through the most important configuration settings, share
advice on what makes a good deployment, and tell you how we and
others run orchestrator. We'll present a few
scripting/automation examples. We will literally set up …

One of the most interesting features introduced in MySQL 8.0 is roles or the ability of defining a set of
privileges as a named role and then granting that set to one or
more users. The main benefits are more clarity of privileges and
ease of administration. Using roles we can assign the same set of
privileges to several users, and eventually modify or revoke all
privileges at once.

Roles in a nutshell

Looking at the manual, we see that using roles is a matter of
several steps.

(1) Create a role. The statement is similar to
CREATE USER though the effects are slightly
different (we will see it in more detail later on.)

With Oracle Open World behind us, we are now
getting ready for the next big event, i.e. the European edition
of PerconaLive. I am going to be a presenter three
times:

MySQL operations in Docker is a three-hour
tutorial, and it will be an expansion of the talk by the same title presented at
OOW. Attendees who want to play along can do it, by coming
prepared with Docker 1.11 or later and the following images
already pulled (images with [+] are mandatory, while [-] are
optional):

The schedule to Percona Live Europe 2016 is being finalized.
It should be published soon, and it will include 3 hour and 6
hour tutorials, regular 50-minute talks, and shorter 25-minutes
talks. It will not include, however, the lightning
talks, a session comprising several 5-minute talks, and
they are missing from the initial schedule for two reasons:

We want to offer a chance to all attendees to propose a lightning talk for some time. We would
like to have more quality material to choose from.

They will not be in the conference venue. Instead, they will
be hosted at Booking, during the community dinner.

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